Congtratulations to the 2018 riverrun Fellowship Award winners! Each award winner will be able to visit an archive, and will make a public presentation of their research in the Fall.
Double congratulations to Walt Hakala! Walt's book Negotiating Languages was just named Honorable Mention in the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize. Walt was also just granted a fellowship from the American Institute of Iranian Studies, which will allow him to travel to South Asia in the coming months to study Arabic-script vernacular epigraphy.
Professor Carrie Bramen's new book American Niceness (Harvard UP, 2017) was just released in August, and people are already taking note. Follow these links to read reviews of the book in The New Yorker and Times Higher Education.
has had two books appear in print this summer: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz: The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature (Indiana University Press) and A Guide to Old Literary Yiddish (Oxford University Press).
